“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

dissatisfied with your

 

The mood was strange.

 

they couldn’t take their eyes off one another

 

at each other before that. Instead, it was the

 

almost chest

 

be my appearance you’re

 

like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a hell of a lot more attractive men much better-looking than

 

doing here, then?

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

resemble each other, right?” The man came closer, as if there was

 

don’t participate in the stupid

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

the man’s hair and dug her nails into the

 

man was twice her size, but he

 

these people were, and why I was here, as I took in the scene of the man and woman’s passionate

 

of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down on the

 

yet macabre. Sad and hopeless and wretched all at

 

eyes turned to

 

could not have seen me. I was only a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone

 

somehow, that woman smiled at me—a meaningless, sad

 

face I hadn’t been able to see previously finally became

 

The woman was me.

 

de Borgia, that’s you… That’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

check, to see, to make sense of it, but it was as if someone had turned me to stone.

 

and waned, and the room plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows in this empty and

 

***

 

white shining right into my eyes had me twitching, trying to

 

my head. I tried to lift my

 

Who got me here? What happened at the

 

slowly woke up, I turned my eyes to my right, the feeling of someone else’s

 

I wanted to cry.

 

he hadn’t just gone through hell and back, but there were no words coming from my dry

 

at him, taking him in, my eyes leaving

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

through his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but my

 

almost a whisper in the soft breeze. “Why didn’t

 

anything. It felt like it didn’t really

 

previous life and everything I had done in this life, all of it flashed before my eyes, like a movie stuck on repeat

 

stranger in my own body thinking about it

 

was low and hoarse as well, a whisper I breathed out. “Because

 

“What…?”

 

broken for a long time. I’ve never really been me. All I was, was an illusion. Once it broke, everyone

 

something that had revealed itself to

 

adoptive parents had been with me once they realized I wasn’t what they had wanted me to be. When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and groveling

 

always been like

 

“Always.”

 

it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were

 

already in a situation where I’m hated without doing anything. I

 

eye with my numb finger, gently at first until I pressed hard

 

on gazing at me with

 

fully, enveloping me in his warmth,

 

torso and burying my head in the juncture where his shoulder and neck met, breathing in his masculine

 

didn’t understand why my head felt so

 

but I didn’t remember it

 

not your fault. It’s not always all

 

arrogant man, I

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